12522. Misbranding of cottonseed meal.     U. S. v.  Southern  Cotton  Oil Co.,
a Corporation.     JPlea of guilty.     Fine, $50.     (F. & D. No. 17799.     I. S.
No. 3403-v.)
On December 5, 1923, the United States attorney for the Southern District 
of Georgia, acting upon a report by the Secretary of Agriculture, filed in the
District Court of the United States for said district an information against 
the Southern Cotton Oil Co., a corporation, Waynesboro, Ga., alleging ship- 
ment by said company, in violation of the food and drugs act, on or about 
December 27, 1922, from the State of Georgia into the State of North Caro- 
lina, of a quantity of cottonseed meal which was misbranded. The article 
was labeled in part: "Protein, not less than 36.00% Equivalent to Ammonia 
7.00%."
Analysis of a sample of the article by the Bureau of Chemistry of this de- 
partment showed that it contained 34.31 per cent of protein, the equivalent 
of 6.68 per cent of ammonia.
Misbranding of the article was alleged in the information for the reason 
that the statement, to wit, "Protein, not less than 36.00% Equivalent to Am- 
monia 7.00%," borne on the tags attached to the sacks containing the said 
article, regarding the article and the ingredients and substances contained there- 
in, was false and misleading in that the said statement represented that the 
article contained not less than 36 per cent of protein, the equivalent of 7 per 
cent of ammonia, and for the further reason that it was labeled as aforesaid so 
as to deceive and mislead the purchaser into the belief that it contained 36 per 
cent of protein, the equivalent of 7 per cent of ammonia, whereas, in truth and 
in fact, the article contained less than 36 per cent of protein, to wit, approxi- 
mately 34 31 per cent of protein, the equivalent of 6.68 per cent of ammonia.
On April 25, 1924, a plea of guilty to the information was entered on behalf 
of the defendant companj', and the court imposed a fine of $50.
HOWARD M. GORE, Secretary of Agriculture.